El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 1

ID) Herald Post Home Edition THREE CENTS IN EL PASO FIVE CENTS ELSEWHERE A Forecast Continued warm this afternoon and tonight (Details on Poge 5) VOL LXII NO 1 22 EL PASO TEXAS FRIDAY MAY 22 1942 DELIVERED IN EL PASO 13a PER WEEK Men June 30 Is Set For Enrollment NATION AWAITS DECLARATION OF Boird FUS On Thousands See Building Dedication Police Judge Acting As Lawyer Of Teen-Agers Will Complete Roster Of Manpower For War Duty By Associated Press WASHINGTON May 22 President Roosevelt today set June 30 as registration day for men between 18 and 20 years of age The President also called for registration on June 30 for possible military service of all men who reached 20 years of age after Dec 31 1941 and on or before next June 30 and who have not heretofore been registered This will complete for the present the registration of the manpower for both fighting and non-combatant war duty ard will be the fifth registration under existing law 1 Men 18 and 19 years of age who will register between 7 a and 9 on June 30 will not be subject to the military draft until they reach the age of 20 Males between 20 and 45 are now subject to military service Approximately 40000lf30 persons between 20 and 63 have been registered in the four previous drafts The first in October 1940 registered approximately 17000000 persons between 21 and 36 The second in July 1941 listed about 750000 who 'had turned 21 since the first draft The third on Feb 16 1942 registered around 9000000 between 20 through 44 The fourth held last month listed around 13000000 men between 45 and 63 The proclamation called for registration on June 30 of all male citizens bom on or after Jan 1 1922 or on and before June 30 1924 Registrations will take place in Alaska Hawaii and Puerto Rico as well as the Continental United States Proposes He Not Handle Cases Of City Jurisdiction The City Civil Service Commission today recommended to the City Council that it Instruct Police Judge Langford to refrain from representing defendants in criminal cases over which his court has jurisdiction The Commission also absolved the Police Department of any misconduct in connection with the fil-' of five vagrancy complaints in Justice of the Peace Court Such complaints usually are filed in Police Court The Commission's ruling followed a hearing to determine whether the fact that Judge Langford represented three of the five defendants had any bearing on the filing of the complaints in Justice of the Peace Court instead of in Police Court No Rules Violated find from the evidence that there was no violation of the law or civil service rules on the part of police officers in the handling of the the Commission wrote jj to the Council Commission found that Judge Langford is not prohibited1 from practicing criminal law but1 that it would be a better policy for him to refuse to represent cli-j ents in criminal cases that -rre under jurisdiction of the Corpora-tion (Police) Judge Langford-represented Hugh and Robert Beavers both of whom were found not guilty and Clyde Lamar who was found guilty and fined $100 and costs by Judge Wind-berg Calvin Hurt pleaded guilty and was fined SI and costs and Robert Smith pleaded guilty and was fined $23 and costs by Judge Windberg Blast From Fryer The decision followed a verbal blast at Judge Langford by Fryer attorney who represented Hurt one of the five men charged with vagrancy believe a magistrate should handle any criminal the attorney told the Commission is his duty to enforce the law The police who appear' in Judge Langford's court naturally would be inclined to favor him when he represents a defendant in Turning to City Attorney Andress Mr Fryer said: not trying to throw anything in your face but you have handled criminal cases too since (Continued on Page 11 Col 3 Second Ship Reported Sunk After Axis Snubs Note Over Torpedoing President Prepares Proclamation By Untied Preti KEY WEST Fla May Ten men lost their lives aboard the torpedoed Mexican tanker Faja de Oro which was sent the bottom by an Axis U-boat exactly one week after anothei Mexican vessel the Portrero de Llano was sunk off Miami survivors landed here revealed today By United Press MEXICO CITY May President Manuel Avila Camacho today was reported preparing to declare a nation-wide state of emergency as the first step toward an expected declaration of war on Germany Italy and Japan The newspaper La Prensa an extra edition said that seizure of Axis property and internment of Axis Nationals will be ordered Indignation was mounting over the refusal of the three Axis governments to accept a Mexican protest over the sinking of a Mexican ship by an Axis submarine last week La Prensa said that a second Mexican steamer the Faja de Oro has been sunk off Cuba but no official confirmation of this report was immediately available although earlier reports said the Foreign Office was investigating the report of the sinking It was understood that under a state of emergency the army and navy and governors of all Mexican states would be placed under special alert orders Avila Camacho was in constant conference with cabinet officers and army generals La Prensa which printed the single word war as its headline on the front page of the extra said that concentration camps will be established in the northern states of Durango and Chihuahua A high government source said last night that President Avila Camacho will issue a proclamation urging the nation to prepare for war Hie government had set last midnight as a deadline for an Axis reply to Mexico's ultimatum demanding an explanation for the sinking of the tanker Portrero Del llano off the Florida coast with the loss of 14 lives The foreign (Continued on Page 2 Col 5) Dedication of Ei Paso County's new $321000 Coliseum near Washington Park draw a greater crowd than Chamber of officials expected Almost filling the huge building which has a seating capacity of 7000 persons El Pasoans saw a colorful performance City school students are shown performing an athletic drill in the arena 1 Expect 2500 Youths To Register In County An estimated 2300 men 18 and 19 years of age are expected to register in El Paso County on June 30 (Continued on Page 2 Col 2) War Will Be Long Warns Nation Cautions Against False Optimism Bjr United Press WASHINGTON May President Roosevelt declaring that this country still faces the prospect of an awfully long war warned today against unwarranted and overly enthusiastic optimism about the progress of the conflict Discussing recent evidences in this (Continued on Page 2 Col 8i Winfield Praises New Coliseum Says Structure Is Monument To Progressiveness Of El Paso Terming it a Investment and a monument to El Paso Lieut Gov Winfield last night formally dedicated the new $321000 Coliseum and Livestock Exposition building at the close of a colorful program The dedicatory ceremony was held along with the annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce and local observance of National Cotton Week- See Wartime Champ Speller And Teacher Leave For National Spelling Bee Richard Earnhart completion of this magnificent edifice is Just one more example of the spirit which prevails here in El Paso and in the Mr Winfield said that spirit which will help carry the nation to victory in the current war It's that spirit which will bring us a lasting peace when the war is over' Chris Fox general manager of the Chamber of Commerce presented one of the most colorful pro-( Continued on Pag 7 Col 1) Reds Report Nazi Crack-Up Started BV CXITED PECSS The Soviet Army organ Red Star reported today that Russian forces driving upon Kharkov against Nazi resistance have crushed Adolf Hitler's hope of any successful large-scale offensive on the Russian battle-fronts Tank-led Russian troops were said in official front lint accounts to have broken into a Ger- that all Soviet attacks had beei man-held town outside Kharkov Pay Stabilization Agreement Signed Unions Government Agencies Enter Pact By United Press WASHINGTON May 22 The I building trade unions of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor today signed an agreement with the Government to stabilize wages on federal construction for the duration of the war The building trade agreement affecting 1500000 members of 19 unions in the building construction industry is the find covering national labor organizations under the law providing machinery for wage stabilization The agreement coincided with an AFL report stating labor's opposition to rigid wage freezing The stabilization formula provides that "wage rates paid under col-( Continued on Page 5 Col 1) Roosevelt Opposes Spotty Pay Raises By United Pre WASHINGTON May President Roosevelt today voiced opposition to the idea of individual companies granting pay raises out line with national wage stabiliza--tion policies Mr Roosevelt said everything! should be done to prevent unwar-' ranted increases by individual companies in order to keep wages all over the country in line with the general Government policy as enunciated in his recent cost-of-living message to Congress In this message the President proxsed that wages be stabilized thruiigh the National War Labor Board It was pointed out to him at his press conference that most rases involving wage raises for American workers are not settled by the board A rase in point was cited (Continued on Page 5 Col 2) Spy Landing Reported On Maine Coast By Associated Press AUGUSTA Maine "May 22 Francis II Farnum state director of Civilian Defense said today that "accurate information is in the possession of police and Army authorities to show that foreign agents have recently been landed on the coast of have tome into the state over the Canadian border or from other parts of the United Farnum said in a prepared statement are here for no good purpose and they are in our midst now They come to plot to damage to Only yesterday civilians and members of the Volunteer Defense Corps were warned by United States and state officials in Boston to exercise especial watchfulness for enemy and Fifth Column action along tiie New England coast Sometimes a special agent is sent to this country to perform some single Farnum added is the pinch hitter or the hit-and-run-worker Once his assignment is completed he tries to make his way back to his native land or to join other spies in this Farnum warned that it was possible that the enemy may attempt to land parachutists or other air-borne troops in and added that "an attempt may even be made to organize bands of Fifth after breaking up a desperate Nazi counter-attack and to be nearing their on the 11th day of Marshal Semyon offensive Russian advices from the 100-mile Kharkov front indicated that the Germans were beginning to crack as a result of enormous losses in men and materials There also were indications that the Nazis were near the exhaustion point on tank reserves The German High Command said repulsed and the German force of Marshal Fedor Von Bock hav the aroun the first time that th Germans have claimed the initia tive Reuters British news agency recorded a German broadcast which said the Russians had broken through main German fighting in the nerth over an eight-mile front southeast of Lake Ilmen after heavy artillery preparation in an assault (Continued on Page 5 Col 3) Tickets Sell Fast For Army Relief Dance The Army Relief dance to be held on Saturday night May 30 at Liberty Hall will be well attended according to the brisk sale of tickets Major Forrest Agee announced This dance will be given for the benefit of needy soldiers and their families including the families of the men of Bataan and Corregidor Music will be furnished by the Fort Bliss Reception Center dance band 13 strong and supplemented by talented members of the Reception Cented entertainment group In this group is Cpl George Montgomery who will sing the Road to and "This Is My Pvt Freeman Harris of El Paso who is now with the Reception Center He will sing Irish Eyes Are and will do a duet with Corporal Montgomery Private Alton Jarrell blackface comedian and others Tickets may be purchased at the Tri-State Music Co And Mrs Black Happy Over Trip Richard Eanshart 11 and Mrs Louise Black his teacher looked ahead to seeing Washington in war time as they said good bye to their families and friends last night and left for the National Spelling Bee in Washington The Herald-Post is paying the expenses of Richard and Mrs Black to Washington The Herald-Post spelling champion from Coldwell Schoo1 and Mrs Black left on the Texas and Pacific train at 8:45 Richard will represent the El Paso Southwest in the National Spelling Bee Tuesday morning in the National Press Club lie will spell against the grade school spelling champions of cities all over the nation lie Will Study "I've got a pocket dictionary and a Collegiate dictionary in mv said Richard "I may look over a few word on the way' Anyway they will bring me Richard wore the blue sport jacket the Coldwell School pupils gave him as a farewell present Mrs Black carried the new handbag the school children gave her are three tilings I want to see in said Richard are the Jefferson Memorial the Andrew Mellon art gallery and the Supreme Court Lyes Were Shining Kii-iard may be a sinll boy but he tclks like a grownup He visited Washington two years ago -Those three places of interest have been built since 1 was he explained you could go to (Continued on Page 3 Col 5) The War Today Sub Sinks Big Jap Cruiser By United Press MELBOURNE May 22 Allied naval forces in their firs action since the Battle of the Coral Sea have sunk a 7100-ton 8-Inch gun Japanese cruiser and two supply ships totaling 15-000 tons Gen Douglas MacArthur announced today Indicating that American submarines did the Job MacArthur said the enemy ships a cruiser of the Kako class which carries 604 officers and men a 9000-ton cargo vessel and a 6000-ton cargo vessel were sunk an underwater MacArthur announced also that United States and Australian planes flying through almost impossible weather had destroyed or damaged He revealed too that In the! raid Wednesday on Koepang Timor Island the Allied planes ha destroyed three enemy planes an damaged three Although no details were given ol Inside Your Herald-Post RUSSIA Russians report breakthrough on Kharkov front Germans admit Red break-through on northern front gigantic tank battle rages Page 1 Nation awaits call to war army ready for orders Page 1 sub sinks Jap t-ruiser and two other ships Page 1 lllnody battles rage on 200-inile front in China Page 5 VILAXTIC Konx- claims battleship sunk Page 5 iin 1 essel sunk with 21 missing Page II Pate 4 13 13 4 4 a 0 II 4 IK 4 lo Navy Chief Named By United PrtiS WASHINGTON May 22 The Navy disclosed today that Rear Admiral Shafroth Jr had been named commander of naval forces in the Southeast Pacific Waters under Sha froth's command pare adjacent to the coast of South America south of the Panama Canal i area (tapper milieu CrHiwvril Ur II 1- Conner Kditorlals I Iranor Ituusevelt Market rosier Krftlio Clock serial Story iile-iiar liejiiark Ttieaters Women' New I a IOMIM the Allied naval success it was understood that a submarine had returned to base after sinking thi three enemy ships eight Japanese planes in one of their most ferocious raids on the Japanese invasion base at Lae New Guinea Kichdrd tarnherf and his teacher Mrs Louise Black leave for Washington.